Chess Visualization with Aiden Rayner

Don't Move Until You See It

Improve your Chess and master visualization while on the go! Featuring science-backed exercises, insights, and lessons designed to make your adult brain better on the 64 squares. Brains are awesome. Yours included.

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Oct 23, 2023 · 11 min
👨‍🏫 The Two Biases (Insight)
There are two assumptions that hold many players back in their Chess conceptualization training. Today, we break them apart.
Oct 22, 2023 · 1 min
🧠 Corner Case (Position Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Oct 19, 2023 · 1 min
🧠 Cloudy with a Chance of Mouseslip (Position Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Oct 18, 2023 · 1 min
🧠🧠 King Season, FIRE (Lost Piece Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Oct 16, 2023 · 10 min
👨‍🏫 Aphantasia and Visualization: A Guide (Insight)
Aphantasia is not a weakness in Chess. It just requires a different approach. Here’s what to do.
Oct 10, 2023 · 3 min
🧠 Slaughtered On The Light Squares (Game Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Oct 10, 2023 · 8 min
👨‍🏫 Tilt is a Traitor (Insight)
How to stop frustration destroying your progress.
Sep 17, 2023 · 2 min
🧠 f3 (Opening Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Sep 15, 2023 · 2 min
🧠 Long Time Gone (Position Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Sep 13, 2023 · 2 min
🧠🧠 Never Ignore Noël (Find the Blunder Exercise)
This conceptualization exercise was guest designed by GM Noël Studer.
Sep 12, 2023 · 8 min
👨‍🏫 Knowledge and Muscle (Insight)
Chess is a game of knowledge AND muscle. Most Chess content focuses only on the knowledge part, but it might be the muscle part that's holding you back.
Sep 9, 2023 · 3 min
🧠🧠 The Hybrid (Hybrid Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Sep 8, 2023 · 2 min
🧠 The Small Things that Make a Difference (Lost Piece Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Sep 6, 2023 · 2 min
🧠 The Humble Rook (Position Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Sep 5, 2023 · 8 min
👨‍🏫 Focus Comes First (Insight)
Why focus is the first and most important part of learning anything- especially, Chess.
Sep 3, 2023 · 2 min
🧠 Reti Forgeti (Opening Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Sep 1, 2023 · 2 min
🧠 Criss Cross Apple Sauce (Position Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Aug 30, 2023 · 1 min
🧠 Check Please (Lost Piece Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.
Aug 29, 2023 · 8 min
👨‍🏫 The Mental Juggler (Insight)
An ode to the part of our brain that keeps all the balls in the air: our working memory.
Aug 25, 2023 · 1 min
🧠 The Knight and Its Castle (Position Exercise)
An exercise to train your conceptualization, strengthen your mental board, and improve your Chess.